You're waiting for your microwaveable meal to cook and have three minutes to kill.

Everyone's ignoring you in the group chat, you're out of Tinder swipes for the day and life just isn't panning out the way you thought it would.

So, who do you turn to for companionship?

Siri, of course.

Well, that's according to one so-called expert at least, who says that lonely and bored men are increasingly turning to virtual assistants to engage in conversations - with many including the sexually explicit kind.

Ilya Eckstein, the chief executive of Robin Labs, said his company's virtual assistant - Robin - was used by some men for up to 300 conversations a day.

Naturally, he surmised it was "mostly teenagers and truckers without girlfriends" who were turning to a life of virtual companionship when speaking with The Times.

"This happens because people are lonely and bored.... It is a symptom of our society. As well as the people who want to talk dirty, there are men who want a deeper sort of relationship or companionship," he said.

Eckstein also added to Quartz: "People want to flirt, they want to dream about a subservient girlfriend, or even a sexual slave. It may just be more for laughs, or something deeper underneath the surface."

Yeah, it's probably just for a laugh, Ilya.

Still, he believes five percent of interactions with his company's chatbot are now sexually explicit, with a third of conversations allegedly taking place for no particular reason.